How To Feed The Planet PART 1: Agri-Tech | with Prof. Simon Pearson | PODCAST #10 PART 1

Professor Simon Pearson sits on one side of a challenge that has divided all who are aware of it - How to feed everyone fairly on a planet with finite resources? As Director of the Lincoln Institute for Agri-Food Technology, he is embedded in emerging research into agri AI, robotics, gene-editing & circular agricultural economics, among many other exciting new ideas at the cusp of science.

This is PART 1 of talking about this debate.

Watch PART 2 from the camp who call for more nature-aligned approaches, here - https://youtu.be/X7K1qKUcN5k

0:00 Intro 2 Approaches  

07:08 Crop Gene Editing 

10:27 The concerns 

15:46 Polarization in Agriculture 

18:41 AI & Machine Learning 

26:43 Energy & Carbon 

34:35 Bio-fuels 

38:23 Global Food Security Index 

41:40 Brexit  

47:02 Losing Ag Jobs to Machines 

52:18 Next Gen of Food Tech

This is a series of in-depth conversations with fascinating people, with loads to say about the current state of the world, everything that came before us, and everything that could be still to come.

You can also WATCH this episode now on Youtube at: https://youtu.be/hgKVKizDFGE

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